Other News - 08/06/2009

EADS established a subsidiary in Japan that the Airbus parent said will "help coordinate and support [its] marketing campaigns and industrial partnerships" in the nation. EADS Japan will be based in Tokyo and "will forge further long-term business relationships with Japanese industry and aerospace institutions," it said, noting that EADS and its subsidiaries "already buy directly or indirectly through its first tier suppliers products worth some $1 billion annually in the country."

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Trans States Holdings, parent of US regionals Trans States Airlines, Compass Airlines and GoJet Airlines, remains “comfortable” with its order for 50 Mitsubishi Regional Jets and expects to begin taking delivery of the aircraft in 2017....More

ICAO will have to boost its budget by 3% to pay a Web-based information database to provide airlines, air navigation service providers and member states a source of safety information about the risks to flights over and within conflict zones....More